Scrawled 'Help' Message Leads to Woman's Rescue

Australian was stuck for three days in national park

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An Australian woman was rescued in a national park last weekend after leaving two messages for help—one scrawled dramatically in the sand, the Herald Sun reports. Emergency crews went looking for Lynette Bond, 68, after a hiker found a three-day-old note in her broken-down vehicle. Rescuers then found her belongings on a trail, and an air crew spotted the word "HELP" in the sand with Bond lying beside it making a "sand angel," reports Australia's News Network. Said Bond from the hospital: "Think I'll buy a bicycle."

Glad the story had a happy ending. It reminds me of a single-frame cartoon I once saw where two rescuers in a helicopter are gazing at the ground far below in which the word HELP is scrawled. The loop on the P is slightly obscured, so one tells the other, "False alarm. It says 'HELF.' "

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